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map type:- Geddes
1848
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Chart, Sketch of the English Channel from the Bar up to
Port Carlisle, in the Solway Firth, scale about 2 ins to 1
mile, by W Geddes, 1848.
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(example map Carlisle Library (70))
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map feature:-
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compass rose & up is N (NNWbyN) & scale line &
sea plain & coast line & sandbanks & foreshore
sands & lighthouses & sea marks & depth
soundings & tidal flows
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inscription:-
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printed lower right
A Rough Sketch / OF THE / ENGLISH CHANNEL, / FROM THE /
BAR, UP TO PORT CARLISLE, / by / W. GEDDES, / Superintendant
of Lights & Buoys, / FOR THE / CARLISLE CANAL COMPANY, /
7th. Novbr. / 1848.
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wxh, sheet:-
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100x67cm
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wxh, map:-
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963x625mm
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inscription:-
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printed with scale line
Scale of One Mile
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scale line:-
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1 mile = 51.2 mm
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scale:-
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1 to 31000 ? (1 to 31432 from scale line)
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sources:-
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Carlisle Library Maps
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items seen (illustrated items in bold):- |
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Carlisle Library : Map 91
-- chart -- Sketch of the English Channel from the Bar up
to Port Carlisle
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